JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2025-09-06 00:00:00
The government in partnership with the World Bank (WB) has undertaken an initiative to strengthen its disaster risk-financing capacity, aiming to better prepare the country to cope with disaster-induced financial shocks.Disaster risk financing involves strategic financial planning and instruments that...
The holy Eid-e-Miladunnabi, commemorating the birth and demise of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (SM), will be observed across the country today with due religious reverence and solemnity, report agencies.The government has taken up elaborate programmes to mark the day with due...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-06 00:00:00
Bangladesh's apparel export to the United States posted a robust 21.68-percent growth in the first seven months of 2025 and exporters expect a better tomorrow as Trump tariff turmoil changes trade equations. According to US official count, the export to...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2025-09-06 00:00:00
Approvals for 34 solar-power plants are finally rescinded following the repeal of a special-provision act by an ordinance promulgated by the post-uprising government, generating frustrations in the entrepreneurs. Officials said Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) cancelled the approvals on "clear...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2025-09-06 00:00:00
No top bureaucrat can be chairman or director of public-sector commercial banks and financial institutions under a new rulebook in the making to rectify past misrule that bred massive scams, officials said. The post-uprising Bangladesh government is preparing the guidelines...
BEIJING, Sept 5 (AFP): China's commerce ministry said Friday it would impose temporary duties on European Union pork imports, after an investigation found evidence of dumping.Beijing launched the probe last year during scrutiny by Brussels of Chinese state subsidies for...
SYLHET, Sept 5 (BSS): Located in the remote northeastern hills of Sylhet, Lovachora has a huge tourism potential due to its untouched natural beauty, rich history and flowing river.Situated near the Kanaighat Upazila, Lovachora lies just a few kilometres from...
MAHMUDUL ISLAM | 2025-09-06 00:00:00
Tanzina Shahnaj has loved two things since her childhood - the rhythm of trains and the tranquillity of solitude. She fondly remembers riding trains to her hometown of Brahmanbaria during Eid or after annual exams, watching birds flying in the...
A S M Abdul Baten | 2025-09-06 00:00:00
Over the last three decades, Bangladesh’s education sector has witnessed significant improvements, including higher literacy rates, nearly universal enrolment, and the increasing use of digital tools in classrooms. Yet one question continues to haunt our advancement and progress: Are we...
Nilratan Halder | 2025-09-06 00:00:00
There pulsates yet another nonplussed surprise in our blood. This is exactly how Jibananda found the human life in its many wonderous manifestations. Does it correspond to Rabindranath's cosmic communication when he declares: the sky is full of sun and...
WASHINGTON, Sept 5 (AFP): US President Donald Trump signed an order Thursday to lower tariffs on Japanese autos, as Washington moves to implement a trade pact negotiated with Tokyo.Japanese autos will face a 15 percent tariff instead of the current...
FRANKFURT, Germany, Sept 5 (AFP) : German industrial orders unexpectedly fell in July, official data showed Friday, the latest sign that Europe's long-struggling top economy remains stuck in the doldrums.New orders, closely watched as an indicator of future business activity,...
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) : Nepal's government said Thursday it is blocking most social media platforms including Facebook, X and YouTube because the companies failed to comply with regulations that required them to register with the government.Nepal's Minister for Communication and...
The management of Agrani Bank PLC held a business review meeting with the bank's top executives at its head office in Dhaka on Thursday. Managing Director of the bank Md Anwarul Islam gave directives regarding various issues such as achieving...
Community Bank Bangladesh PLC has entered into a strategic agreement with NEC Express Limited, a sister concern of NEC Money Transfer Limited. Under this partnership, Community Bank will facilitate the collection of wage earners' remittances through NEC Express. Kimiwa Saddat,...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-06 00:00:00
The country's apex trade body-FBCCI--has called upon the government to consider allowing export of aromatic rice in order to encourage exporters and ensure its fair price at the farmers' level, sources said.The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry...
SYDNEY, Sept 05 (AFP): Samoa's first woman leader, Fiame Naomi Mata'afa, has failed to win a majority in the Pacific nation's elections this week, results showed Friday, capping months of political infighting.Official results published by the electoral commission showed the...
GENEVA, Sept 05 (AFP): The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have committed numerous crimes against humanity in Sudan's civil war, in particular in their siege of El-Fasher in western Darfur, UN investigators said Friday.The United Nations' fact-finding mission for Sudan determined...
Mumbai Police said they are on high alert after receiving a threat call claiming that 34 vehicles carrying "human bombs" and 400kg of RDX had been planted across the city, reports Reuters.The caller warned of blasts that would "shake the...
BIRMINGHAM, Sept 05 (Reuters): British Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner resigned on Friday after saying she deeply regretted her mistake of underpaying property tax on a new home, in a damaging blow for her boss, Prime Minister Keir Starmer.After Britain's...
WASHINGTON, Sept 05 (AFP): US President Donald Trump is changing the name of the Department of Defence to the Department of War, the White House announced Thursday, insisting the rebrand will project a more powerful image. While the department's official...
GAZA CITY, Sept 05 (Agencies): The armed wing of Palestinian militant group Hamas released footage on Friday purporting to show two hostages seized on October 7, 2023 alive in Gaza City late last month.The video shows one hostage in a...
BANGKOK, Sept 05 (Reuters): Thailand's Anutin Charnvirakul was elected prime minister on Friday after breezing through a parliamentary vote, trouncing the candidate of the Shinawatra family's once-dominant ruling party to end a week of chaos and political deadlock.With decisive opposition...
MOSCOW, Sept 05 (Agencies): Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Friday that any Western forces deployed to Ukraine would be a "legitimate" target for Moscow's army, a day after Kyiv's allies said they had committed to a troop presence in...
NEW YORK, Sept 5 (AFP): Reigning champion and world number one Aryna Sabalenka will play Amanda Anisimova in the US Open final after the American ended the run of Japanese star Naomi Osaka on Thursday.Sabalenka overcame Pegula 4-6, 6-3, 6-4...
LONDON, Sept 5 (AFP): Women's Super League newcomers London City Lionesses have completed the signing of Paris Saint-Germain's Grace Geyoro for a world record fee for a female footballer of £1.43 million ($1.93 million), a source with knowledge of the...
WELLINGTON, Sept 5 (AFP): New Zealand cricket great Ross Taylor announced Friday he was coming out of retirement, nearly four years after quitting, to help Samoa qualify for next year's Twenty20 World Cup.The 41-year-old former Blackcaps skipper said it would...
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has raised the valuation for sponsoring the Indian cricket team, setting a new base price higher than what Dream11, the outgoing sponsor, had been shelling out, reports Cricbuzz.According to industry sources,...
Bangladesh will take on host Nepal in the first of the two-match FIFA Tier-1 International Friendlies scheduled to be held at Dashrath Rangasala Stadium in Kathmandu, Nepal today (Saturday), reports BSS.The match kicks off at 5.45 pm Bangladesh time.The main...
LOS ANGELES, United States, Sept 5 (AFP): Inter Miami forward Luis Suarez, who spat at a Seattle staff member after the Sounders' Leagues Cup final triumph on Sunday, apologised in a statement on Instagram on Thursday."It was a moment of...
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